Jewish Life and World HistorY

Students will be taught how to comprehend topics and examples of Jewish life found within standard world history curricula through essays, commentaries to their lesson plans, class discussion, and presentations. Topics included in this course:

The biblical Israelite period

Judaism and Christianity - common roots and separation, along with medieval Judaism/Spain and the Inquisition

American Jewish life and contemporary American Jewish life

Holocaust history, Israel, and World Jewry

Meet your Presenter:

Dr. Joseph A. Edelheit, D Min, DD, Director and Professor of Religious and Jewish Studies at SCSU from 2003 to present. Dr. Edelheit has also served as the senior Rabbi at Temple Israel, Minneapolis, from 1992 - 2001. Dr. Rabbi Edelheit has authored several essays and chapters dealing with interfaith relations. He was the cofounder of the Downtown Interfaith Forum in Minneapolis.

This class will not be offered this year, but check back as we are hoping to offer it next year.